Introduction -- Eating hearts / Yoon Ha Lee -- The denial / Bruce Sterling -- The fraud / Esther M. Friesner -- Sunbird / Neil Gaiman -- Shard of glass / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- The farmer's cat / Jeff VanderMeer -- Crab apple / Patrick Samphire -- Comber / Gene Wolfe -- Walpurgis afternoon / Delia Sherman -- Monster / Kelly Link -- Robots and falling hearts / Tim Pratt and Greg van Eekhout -- Still life with boobs / Anne Harris -- Heads down, thumbs up / Gavin J. Grant -- Mom and Mother Teresa / Candas Jane Dorsey -- Newbie wrangler / Timothy J. Anderson -- Being here / Claude Lalumiére -- The imago sequence / Laird Barron -- Magic in a certain slant of light / Deborah Coates -- Single white farmhouse / Heather Shaw -- Read it in the headlines! / Garth Nix -- Niels Bohr and the sleeping dane / Jonathon Sullivan -- Mortegarde / Liz Williams -- Inside job / Connie Willis
Contains tales of enchantment, wonder, and horror by authors including Ursula K. LeGuin, Charles de Lint, Tanith Lee, Gene Wolfe, Ted Chiang, Kate Riedel, Terry Goodkind, and Nicola Griffith